Scandal Quotes - Page 11

• The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Complacency, Christianity

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• Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Enron Scandal, Civilization, Long

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• There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

  Faith Hill

  Past, Thinking, Interesting

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.

  Bo Schembechler

  Jobs, Thinking, Enron Scandal

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• Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

  Rachel Maddow

  Sports, Dollars, Share

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• Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

  A.C. Grayling

  Children, Abuse, Religion

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• Any truth creates a scandal.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Truth

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Perseverance, Prayer, Mind

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• And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

  Rachel Field

  Way, Catching Up, Disregard

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Humble, Organization

  "The Taxman Cometh". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2013.

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• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  Gail Collins

  Running, Sex, Mean

  "The Sequester App". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 06, 2013.

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• Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

  Mark Foley

  House, Honor, Trying

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• If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

  Ron Fournier

  Mean, Victory, Faces

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• Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Educational, Home

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• 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Jail, Facts

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

  Helen Thomas

  Erosion, Presidential, Stronger

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• Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.

  Fred Thompson

  Presidential, Chinese, Campaigns

  "The 'Inside Politics' Interview: Sen. Fred Thompson". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 19, 1998.

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• What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!

  John Lydon

  Sex, Silly, People

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• A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Years, Ease

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• It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit, and vanity of being thought in the secrets of the world; or from a desire of gratifying any of these dispositions of mind in those persons with whom we converse.

  Joseph Addison

  Vanity, Ill Will, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.675

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• Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Running, Romance, Moral

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Heart, Evil

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• When scandal has new-minted an old lie,
  Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply,
  'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears
  Gathering around it with erected ears;
  A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd,
  Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud,
  Just as the sapience of an author's brain,
  Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.

  William Cowper

  Lying, Names, Brain

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.124

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• I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

  George Stevens

  Might

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• Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Men, Mistress

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